Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] that [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treaty gave no indication of what a common agricultural policy would be other than something that would increase agricultural productivity , ensure a fair standard . |
| 2 | Second , while two thirds of respondents espoused an open systems policy , in reality few are adopting it — again , open systems is regarded as a technology to keep the computing professionals amused rather than something that will show real business benefits . |
| 3 | A crash or a motoring conviction was viewed as unlucky , rather than something that should have been avoided . |
| 4 | SIR ANTHONY Hidden QC has omitted one place to lay the blame for the Clapham disaster — the law lords who decided in the ‘ Fares Fair ’ case that an ‘ economic ’ transport system was one that made a profit or broke even on fares charged , rather than one that could expect support from ratepayers or taxpayers . |
| 5 | Is the implication of what you 've just said to the Chairman that you agree with Mr Allenby that this animal is a different one than anything that might go to an I five site ? |
| 6 | if someone that could put up with his sort of quite reservation |
| 7 | Even if everything that might go wrong does go wrong , it would require extra efforts of neglect , incompetence and ill fortune to fashion a depression even half as bad as that of the 1930s . |
| 8 | and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest . |
| 9 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared . |
| 10 | I support the Bill , because anything that can add to the action that can be taken against car thieves is welcome . |
| 11 | There were one or two things that may concern them ( the scratchy sound of the orchestra for one ) , though nothing that should deter them from tuning in , for the singing was generally fine , with particularly good contributions from the basses ( Michael George and Peter Harvey ) , the soprano Nancy Argenta , the tenor Andrew Murgatroyd , the ‘ cantor ’ Nicholas Robertson and the choir itself , here expanded , of course , to The Twenty . |
| 12 | Delegates in this room from Apex may recognize me as someone that used to get up and say I was representing Apex Public Service and Management Branch . |
| 13 | However , performing its adaptive function blood pressure is merely a natural physiological trait , though one that can vary over a wide range even in healthy individuals . |
| 14 | In their advertising these firms represented their service as one that would relieve the anxiety of owing so much to others — borrowing from a single Peter to pay pressing Pauls ? |
| 15 | While most of what follows with regard to consultation skills will also be relevant for working with individual teachers , the focus will be on group consultation ; not merely , however , as a numerically economic approach , but as one that can show how personal resources can be maximised through working in groups with colleagues , using skills which are also relevant to the group members as teachers . |
| 16 | He envisaged a Soviet return to the position of leading exporter of grain as something that would make ‘ Messrs Imperialists ’ sit up and take notice . |
| 17 | While some British officials were interested in the Schuman Plan , the Labour Party rejected it as something that would limit its ability to strive for democratic Socialism in Britain ‘ and to apply the economic controls necessary to achieve it ’ . |
| 18 | Mr Reed maintains that , even if such a late take-up did not happen often , ‘ it was common currency among merchant bankers as something that could happen ’ . |
| 19 | But if we think of our target as anything that would improve survival chances , the argument still works . |